[GUI Plugin] Job Spy

[DaltonST]

all the custom columns in my edit metadata pop-up have disappeared and I can’t get them back.

They did not disappear; you had to have manually turned them off (protected/hid them). Nothing about that tool is automatic.

Simply reverse what you did via the settings for that tool displayed in the attached image. The menu path is the same as what you previously used.



DaltonST

[maddz]

Thanks, I still don't know how I managed it...

I'm still trying to get the calibre book ID to display in the edit metadata (alternatively, be able to edit a specific ID column in the booklist).

[theducks]

{ID} is not an editable field in the MDE (or any place else), It is assigned by Calibre and matches book title (##) folder name. The MUST stay in lockstep.

Identifiers is where yo set things like ISBN:123456789012
It always has the format type-name:value and only 1 of any type-name can be stored.

{id} is viewable in either the I(nfo) pane or Details
and you can see it in the Title folders name if you O(pen) the selected books folder. NEVER change anything if you do

BTW The ROW number is not related to ID

[theducks]

Was it Show Row in main interface that you wanted?
Again, AFAIK this is not usable for anything except eyeballs as the book ON that row moves around

[DaltonST]

Version 1.0.178 -2020-04-09 New GUI Tool: Update 'Last-Viewed' Custom Column Automatically

See the attached Customizing ToolTip instructions.



DaltonST

[theducks]

Originally Posted by DaltonST

Version 1.0.178 -2020-04-09 New GUI Tool: Update 'Last-Viewed' Custom Column Automatically

See the attached Customizing ToolTip instructions.



DaltonST

I had fun getting this to work on my TestLib.
1) It seems the Library name is case sensitive? It took so many trys, I am not positive.

2) The timestamp returned is ugly? (20200009:11) and wrong 20200409

Could you use the Quick switch list to suggest Libraries? Date type fields for the field (Count pages PI does this)?
Also minor: When I click Save in the configuration, shouldn't the button grey out, thus acknowledging it completed?

[DaltonST]

Originally Posted by theducks

I had fun getting this to work on my TestLib.
1) It seems the Library name is case sensitive? It took so many trys, I am not positive.

2) The timestamp returned is ugly? (20200009:11) and wrong 20200409

Could you use the Quick switch list to suggest Libraries? Date type fields for the field (Count pages PI does this)?
Also minor: When I click Save in the configuration, shouldn't the button grey out, thus acknowledging it completed?

[1] Configured Library names must always "match" what Calibre says the current Library name is, which implicitly means "case sensitive". I won't change it to match anything other than what Calibre calls it.



[2] The Tool has nothing to do with it. My datetime custom column shows exactly what it was configured to be via Preferences > Add Columns to show. Mine is set to 'YYYY MM DD'. See the attached images.



[3a] Use the Wildcard '*' if you have so many Libraries that you cannot remember their names. If they don't have the specified custom column, the Tool will know that, and not activate it for them. It takes more resources to do that versus specifying the exact Library names to activate it for, but that is the penalty for having to resort to the wildcard when not really needed.





[3b] Using this Tool presupposes the best practice of harmonization of custom column names across all Libraries. Job Spy has a Tool that displays a matrix of all custom column technical attributes for all known Calibre Libraries to facilitate harmonization. There is an image for that attached.



[4] To grey it out means that it must immediately be un-greyed out, since there are 66 Tools configured in JS Customizing. There are far too many items to be configured to track "what has been changed since the last save".




DaltonST

[theducks]

You are correct about everything.
I understand tracking changes to toggle the state

TNX for the reply

[ownedbycats]

It works! (I did have to restart Calibre before it began filling in the dates though.) Thank you.

[dunhill]

DaltonST are there plans to translate Job Spy into Spanish? I offer myself

[DaltonST]

Thanks for the offer, but translating English to Spanish is the easy part. The technical underpinnings and infrastructure to support multiple languages in JS does not exist. Work-months of my labor would be required to change and test it. So, it is not going to happen to any of my 15 plugins.


DaltonST

[Rellwood]

Originally Posted by DaltonST

Version 1.0.177 -2020-04-01 New GUI Tool: Library-specific Tweak: job_spy_metadata_edit_custom_column_order for Standard Tweak: metadata_edit_custom_column_order

See the attached instructions.


DaltonST

Sweet! It will be a major hassle to set up, but once it's done the rewards will be great! I have one library with completly different columns than my standard libaries. My standard libaries are organized.

[DaltonST]

Version 1.0.179 -2020-04-27 New GUI Tool: Create Bibliography Text & Copy to Clipboard

See the attached image.


Addendum to image:

Additional available keywords:[*] 2-digit Month is "MM". "MONTH" is always the English name of "MM".[*] "FN" is First Name, just as "LN" is Last Name.


Added: the next version will include #customcolumnnames as valid keywords in the bibliography template.



DaltonST

[DaltonST]

Version 1.0.180 -2020-04-28 Add #customcolumn Keywords to Template for GUI Tool: Create Bibliography Text & Copy to Clipboard.

See the attached ToolTips from JS Customizing for this tool.




DaltonST

[DNSB]

This is a query for a co-worker. She was working on her calibre library and managed to reset the modified date to the current date for all her books. What she would like is to reset the modified date (rather doubtful) or set it to the added date. I mentioned the JobSpy plugin could reset the modified date but I can't see a way to use anything other than a manually set date. Given the number of functions built into JobSpy, I decided it'd be easier to ask than to dig through the layers of menus and options.